i am potat

programmer, musician, artist, gamer, computer engineer, amateur philosopher, and meme connoisseur (not necessarily in that order) | they granted me the rank of master but i am not on the council | allegedly a human [press X to doubt] | pfp courtesy of Bulbapedia | if you ask me for money and I don't know you I will assume you are a bot [derogatory] and block you

[zagreus]

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Ever since the original tape of the Wilhelm scream recording session surfaced I have been losing my mind a little bit over it

[grippysockgang-deactivated20230]

You all are the coolest people I vaguely know

[owlet]

thank you scherz et al. for bringing us the frogs Mini ature, Mini mum and of course, the Mini scule

[owlet]

[heavensenthousepet]

when the subtitles have slight inaccuracies like synonyms and asynchronous abbreviations/lengthenings to what's actually being said

[boomer-mythology-destroyer]

[subjectsix]

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[subjectsix]

glad this post is resonating with the local populace fr

[pagliaccis-clown]

workplace friendships have you being friends with a 41 year old at 17

[garbage-empress]

Something the AI text boom has made me realize is that "no information" is significantly better than "wrong information."

I just saw Doordash AI describe a gallon of blue cheese dressing as a "sweet and refreshing beverage concentrate."

[enderwiggin]

[sableleatherywingsopeninthe711]

[wikicamp2]

[videolottery]

Someone should make a disco elysium spiritual successor that takes place in a maze and follows a protagonist who has to eat all the dots in the maze whilst avoiding several ghosts

[dragongirlbunny]

you can actually homebrew this in d&d 5e

[orteil42]

absolutely grotesque amount of foresight of me to make a web game with javascript instead of Flash in 2013

[toadalled]

Thinking about how trains call to each other in the rainy night like whales do in the inky black of the sea.

[beardedmrbean]

this sounds like a party to me

[samreich]

sometimes you have to read your dad's texts and just move on with your day

[breakstar91]

This man’s Jewish father is gonna guilt trip *ME* into calling *MY* parents.

[sighinastorm]

[bunny7567]

i am very much Echo

[bunny7567]

[storyweaverofgondor]

Yoda watching Luke leave Dagobah: Too much of his father in him, he has.

Ghost Obi-wan: Actually, he is far more like his mother.

Yoda: REMEMBER AMIDALA, DO YOU NOT?! WORSE, THAT IS!